Spacer for fence line-wires.



W. C. GAMBREL. SPACER FOR FENCE LINE WIRES. APPLICATION PVILBD 00129,1910.

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WALTER CALVIN GAMBREL, OF TABOR, ILLINOIS.

SPACER FOB, FENCE LINE-'WIREE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVALTER CALVIN GAMBREL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re siding at Tabor, in the county of Dewitt and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spacersfor Fence Lineires, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in fence line wirespacers; and the objects and nature of the invention will be readilyunderstood by those skilled in the art in the light of the followingexplanation of the accompanying drawings showing what I now consider mypreferred embodiment from among other constructions within the spiritand scope of my invention.

The invention consists in certain novel features in construction and incombinations and arrangements as more fully and particularly pointed outhereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a spacer of my invention applied to a fence. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation thereof. Fig. 3 is an edge elevation, the fence line wiresbeing shown in cross section.

In the construction of line wire fences, particularly long fences, whereconsiderable distances intervene between the line posts, it is necessaryto secure the line wires together by vertical stays between line posts,and it is desirable to maintain the proper spacing of the line wiresbetween the line posts and while the stays are being secured so that thewires will be properly spaced at the stays and will be maintained sospaced by the stays. It is exceedingly ditlicult to attain the properspacing of the line wires at distances from the posts and to then sosecure the stays as to maintain such spacing.

It is the object of my invention to provide a portable device wherebythe line wires can be properly spaced and will be so held while avertical stay is being applied to the seriesof line wires to maintainsuch spacing, whereupon the device can be removed from the wires andcarried to the next point where a stay is to be applied.

In the drawings, 1 is the body of the portable spacer consisting of astraight bar of such length that when vertically arranged against thefence it will traverse all of the line wires a, thereof. This barcarries a vertical series of laterally-projecting horizontalSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 29, 1910.

Patented Mar. '7, 1911.

Serial No. 589,797.

open line-wire-receiving hooks 2, one for each line wire of the fence,and these hooks are spaced apart according to the proper or desiredspacing of the line wires. The hooks are so formed that when the bar isheld in a vertical position against the fence the line wires can bereadily placed in the hooks so that the bar will be carried by the wiresand yet so that the hooks will positively hold the wires the desireddistances apart and against independent vertical movement. The bar isprovided with a leveling or sighting projection whereby the operator canreadily determine whether the bar is in the desired accurateperpendicular or vertical position. For instance, I show a straightstiff rod 3, rigid with and projecting horizontally from, that is atright angles to, the bar so that when the bar is in the perpendicularposition this rod will be in the horizontal position and parallel withthe adjacent line wire and by closely observing this rod and itsrelation to the adjacent line wire, the operator can readily see whetherthe bar is in the desired position. e

For the purpose of maintaining the bar in the desired vertical positionand whereby the bar can be adjusted to the desired position, I provideline wire clamps 4, having link connections 5, to the opposite endportions of the bar or body 1, respectively. Each clamp consists of abase plate and an adjustable plate and a pair of removable clampingscrews 40, whereby said plates can be drawn tightly against a line wirearranged therebetween. The clamps are arranged on difierent line wiresand are located in advance of the bar 1, and the clamps can be slippedalong the line wires until the bar is located in the desired positionwhereupon both clamps are tightened on their respective wires. Eitherclamp can be loosened and moved toward or from the bar 1, to shift saidbar in adjusting the same accurately to the perpendicular position.WVhen the bar has been thus accurately set, and all of the line wiresare held thereby properly spaced, the stay is arranged adjacent to saidbar and is fixed to all the line wires. When the stay has been secured,the clamps 4 are loosened and the spacer is moved to the point on theline wires where the next stay is to be secured.

It is evident that various changes might be resorted to in the forms,constructions and arrangements of the parts described without departingfrom the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim is 1. A spacer for fence line wires consisting of anelongated bar having a longitudinal series of spaced line wire spacingelements, clamps adjustable longitudinally on and adapted to gripdifierent line wires, and bar connections from said clamps,respectively, to said bar, substantially as described.

2. A spacer for fence line wires consisting of a bar provided with linewire spacing means, a pair of separate line wire gripping clamps, looselink connections therefrom to 5 In testimony whereof I affix mysignature 20 in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER CALVIN GAMBREL.

lVitnesses E. S. MCDONALD, Rosa VoELoKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

